Joseph H. Greenberg quotes

“A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.”
-- Joseph H. Greenberg

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“The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.”
-- Joseph H. Greenberg

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“I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.”
-- Joseph H. Greenberg

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“I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.”

“I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.”

Source : "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.

“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”

“Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”

“I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.”

“I also think that I had great mechanics.”

“Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.”